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The week in .NET: .NET Core 1.0.1 – On .NET with Peachpie – Avalonia – Folk Tale
To read last week’s post, see The week in .NET – 9/7/2016..NET Core 1.0.1 shipped!We shipped .NET Core 1.0.1 yesterday. Check out the announcement!On .NETLast week, we spoke with Benjamin Fistein and...
View ArticleApps built using the Desktop Bridge now available in the Windows Store!
A few months ago, during Build 2016, we announced the Desktop Bridge, enabling developers to bring their existing desktop apps and games over to the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) by converting their...
View ArticleChanges to Visual Studio “15” Setup
We’ve listened to feedback over the years, and while each new release brought changes to the setup experience of Visual Studio and related products, none have been more significant than what we’re...
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Putting (my VB6) Windows Apps in the Windows 10 Store - Project Centennial
I noticed today that Evernote was in the Windows Store. I went to the store, installed Evernote, and it ran. No nextnextnextfinish-style install, it just worked and it worked nicely. It's a Win32 app...
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Smooth Interaction and Motion with the Visual Layer
The Composition APIs come with a robust animation engine that provides quick and fluid motion running in a separate process from your Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app. This provides a consistent 60...
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Check Out this Fall’s New TV Shows, Movies & More
As summer fades and the weather cools, people begin to spend more time indoors, in front of their screens and devices, looking for entertainment. To help you navigate the deluge of offerings, the Bing...
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“Throwing your voice” with Spatial Audio
The age-old act of ventroquilism sees a puppet move its mouth while the controlling ventriloquist speaks without moving their lips – pretty impressive! The underlying technique has the ventriloquist...
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Unity Interop and App Extensibility (App Dev on Xbox series)
Continuing what we started during the “App Dev on Xbox” event, today we are making available yet another app experience – Atmosphere. In this blog post, you will learn how to get started building great...
View ArticleMicrosoft discontinuing Project Server/TFS Integration. Partner to provide...
As Agile practices continue to evolve and become our customer’s primary choice for work management, we are changing how TFS and Project Server integrate. With the next major version of TFS, TFS ’15’,...
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Animations with the Visual Layer
When the layout of your Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app changes, there is often a slight pause as your app rearranges content to fit the new window size or orientation. Composition APIs let you...
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Self-contained .NET Core Applications
Just in case you missed it, .NET is all open source now and .NET Core is a free, open source, cross-platform framework that you can download and start with in <10 minutes. You can get it on Mac,...
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TFVC Support in Preview for Team Services Plugin for IntelliJ and Android Studio
We are proud to announce that Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) support is being added to the Team Services plugin for IntelliJ and Android Studio. Currently, the 1.106.0 version of the plugin...
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Vcpkg: a tool to acquire and build C++ open source libraries on Windows
We are delighted to announce the availability of VCPkg on GitHub https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg . Vcpkg and its associated open sourced port tree simplify acquiring and rebuilding open source...
View ArticleMicrosoft at CppCon 2016
The Microsoft Visual C++ team is at CppCon 2016 next week, September 18 – 23 in Bellevue, WA.CppCon is the annual, week-long face-to-face gathering for the entire C++ community. The conference is...
View ArticleVisual C++ 2015 Migration Documentation Update
Upgrading to the latest C++ compiler and toolset is sometimes not so easy and can be time consuming. You are likely to encounter some compiler and linker errors and warnings in code that previously...
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Custom ASP.NET Core Middleware Example
One of the great things about ASP.NET Core is its extensibility. The behavior of an ASP.NET Core app’s HTTP request handling pipeline can be easily customized by specifying different middleware...
View ArticleCppCon 2016: Latest and greatest for C++ Developers
Daniel Moth and Steve Carroll shared the Latest and greatest from the Visual Studio family for C++ developers on Monday.You can grab the slides here. If you are at the conference, swing by our booth...
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The week in .NET: On .NET with Steeltoe – C# Functional Extensions – Firewatch
To read last week’s post, see The week in .NET: .NET Core 1.0.1 – On .NET with Peachpie – Avalonia – Folk Tale.On .NETLast week, we had David Morhovich and Zach Brown on the show to talk about...
View ArticleRecap: Bringing your UWP apps to Xbox – App Dev on Xbox Twitter Chat
Whether you bring your existing Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app to Xbox or create an engaging new concept, Xbox provides a great new place for your app to shine: The living room.We recently hosted...
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Using physical boards alongside your Team Services/TFS Kanban and Taskboards...
Agile transformation and ongoing process maintenance are often not as easy as they would seem. Despite the very open nature of Agile Manifesto it is important to maintain consistency between selected...
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